How 'Slow Living' Can Help You Regain Control Over Your Daily Life

Hyperconnectivity, excessive support, immersion in a frantic pace of life: we dream of slowing down and regaining control over our daily lives. After trends, food, and cosmetics: slow living is conquering homes, accompanying the return to mechanical gestures. As if we want to take time for ourselves…

What if our life rhythms require slowing down? As philosopher and essayist Joël Favier reminds us: "Speed, in the sense of quickness, has always been considered an advantage in society. The myth of Prometheus allows smaller animals not to be eaten by larger ones, thanks to their ability to run faster. In our lives, where time is constantly in crisis, slowness is a way to regain dominance, to act rather than react, to take control and live better without feeling out of the game. Sociologist Frédéric Lenoir: 'Joy can only exist when there is presence in the world, attention to people and things. There cannot be deep joy in a storm.'"